Adler Tops $2.4 Million Raised

For Immediate Release:

October 13, 2008

Adler Tops $2.4 Million Raised

Medford residents contribute over $32K to John Adler in a telling rebuke of tax and spend Mayor Chris Myers

Mt. Laurel, NJ – In a further repudiation of their town's mayor, Chris Myers, Medford residents helped 3rd District Democratic congressional candidate John Adler boost his fundraising total during the campaign to nearly $2.5 million. Adler announced today that he had raised more than $550,000 in the third quarter alone.

Medford residents were particularly generous to the Adler campaign, contributing more than $9,000 in the month of September alone and more than $32,000 since Adler entered the race. That support amounts to a clear rejection of Myers, Adler's Republican opponent in the congressional contest. Adler reported that he still has more than $1.2 million cash on hand for the final four weeks of the campaign.

"I am extremely grateful to all of those who have contributed to my campaign for change in New Jersey," Adler said. "As I travel around the district, voters continue to tell me the same thing: our country needs to move in a new direction. We cannot afford four more years of the George Bush-Chris Myers economic policies that have seriously hurt middle-class taxpayers and put our pensions and retirement savings at grave risk."

Mark Warren, the campaign manager for Adler, said, "The people who know Chris Myers best, the residents of Medford, are clearly fed up with Mayor Myers' tax-and-spend policies and are showing their displeasure by contributing their hard-earned money to John Adler – over $9,000 from Medford residents in the month of September alone.   While Myers holds big-ticket, extravagant fundraising galas with George W. Bush and his lobbyist friends, the hard-working people of Medford are standing up for John Adler. John Adler's campaign has received almost 4,000 donations this cycle. Nearly three quarters of those come from New Jersey residents. Voters across New Jersey know that John Adler is committed to fighting the Bush/Myers economic policies that are doing so much damage to the middle class."